Stairway to SSAS Tabular Level 5: Cleaning up Dimensions
In this fifth level of the SSAS Tabular stairway, learn how to clean up dimensions.
Convert Excel Workbooks to CSV with Microsoft Fabric
For my new mission, I set out to convert a list of files from Excel to comma-separated values (CSV). We upload the original Excel files to a Data Lake in Fabric. We then need to convert a specific worksheet and move the CSV files to a different folder in Data Lake.
A gentle introduction to dbt
Over the past years, the tool dbt – short for data build tool – has become quite popular in the data engineering world for handling such an ELT process. dbt takes on the role of the “T”, meaning it’s responsible for transforming the data in a certain data store.
Connecting Streamlit to Upload Data to Snowflake
How to create a connection for StreamLit and Snowflake to upload data for visualization
Data Warehouse Considerations - SCD Type 2 vs Overwrite Dimension Tables
How we handle data warehousing updates to dimension tables is crucial and this article covers Slowly Changing Dimensions versus overwriting tables.
The ROI of SQL Prompt
Find your personal ROI in under 1 minute. And see how many working days you and your team could save in coding time with SQL Prompt!
Big Data or Small Data
Today Steve talks about big data sets and whether we really need them, or even enjoy working with them.
Blogs
Rambling about Data on Wheels – origins, branding, expansion
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I have been asked many times about how the name “Data on Wheels” came...
Think Twice Before Enabling Fabric’s Inbound Network Protection
Fabric inbound network protection involves two tenant-level controls: Private Link and Block Public Internet...
Match the Model to the Task, Not the App: An Orchestrator-Worker Pattern in Python
Most apps that call an LLM send every request to the same model. That...
Forums
AI Observability Challenges in FinOps as a DBA
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Migration Challenge: Excessive FULLSCAN Statistics Update Duration Blocking SQL
Hello everyone , I am planning to migrate a database from SQL Server 2014...
SQL Agent Job Automated Change Capture Process
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Question of the Day
Finding a Database Master Key
Where do I check for the existence of a Database Master Key (DMK) in SQL Server 2025?
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